“I can’t imagine how bizarre it must be for someone 145 years old.”
My mother is 99 and fully up to date on politics. She is still interested and has about 90% of her faculties. She saw the Wright Brothers fly at the Ohio state fair. She rode a horse to school. She had friends who lived in their covered over dug-out basements while they built their houses. She went to Batista’s Cuba.
Having said all that, cell phones are beyond her. The TV is a mystery, as in how to turn it on and off. The computer isn’t part of her life, nor will it ever be. My sister, at 72 also is having problems with those things. I am 62 and just got my first screen phone. I have zero interest in current entertainment and haven’t watched a TV since the OJ trial. I guess older people just learn the things that are important to them and not much else.
Wants to die? How many time married? Maybe some bad divorces?
Interesting.
Worked in the systems evaluation end of design back in the 80’s, Not afraid of tech, was first on the net in 83...I assure you not much there. First Blackberry, first bag cell, First cable internet... on and on.
Now. I am really not interested in tech. Stopped upgrading phones in 2011, I just purchase them on the net.
Stopped moving music, I am sticking to CDs, Hell I lived through vinyl, 8 tracks, reel to reel, cassettes, and CDs.
Stopped dealing with complicated vid. I had video and now CDs, I do use Netflix. Bought a big 90 in screen for my movies, I watch perhaps4 to 10 times a month. And I got that because the local pest control folks told me at one of my apts, that the movie theatres are one of the biggest sites for the transmission of bedbugs. But honestly, that is all.
There just isn’t anything more I want to do. I have a laptop, a little computer for travel, and I like not being always plugged in.